Awards

Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Jackson, who has received a First Book Award from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities! Professor Jackson’s book, titled Material World: Making Modern Chemistry, will explain the rise …

Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for up to 12 months. The awards are funded through the U.S. Department …

The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living US poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Martín Espada is awarded the prize in recognition of …

Emily Callaci, assistant professor of history, and Mitra Sharafi, associate professor at the Law School, have been offered Summer Stipend awards by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is the first time two UW–Madison …

Congratulations to senior History major Emma Strenski!! Emma has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Modern History from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign …

Caitlin Tyler-Richards, History PhD candidate in African History, has won a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship at the University of Washington Press for 2018-2019. This prestigious fellowship will allow Caitlin to continue work on her …

Our undergraduate advisor extraordinaire, Scott Burkhardt, has just won this year’s L&S Academic Advising Award. UW-Madison College of Letters & Science gives out only two awards per year – one for faculty, one for staff. …

Congratulations to Kate Wersan, who has won the American Society for Environmental History’s 2017 Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in Environmental History. Her article, “The Early Melon and the Mechanical Gardener: Toward an Environmental History …

David McDonald has been chosen to receive a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award!! In his nearly 30-year teaching career at UW-Madison Prof. McDonald has guided students through topics ranging from Imperial Russia to baseball in the …